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Dirty Dancing
Wednesday July 24
4:00pmDirector: Emile Ardolino
1987 / 100min / 35mm
A pulse-pounding pop fantasy starring Jennifer Grey as headstrong 17-year-old doctor’s daughter “Baby” Houseman who, while on vacation in the Catskills in the summer of ’63, finds herself falling head-over-heels for sexy working-class dance…
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Le Bonheur
Wednesday July 24
4:30pmDirector: Agnès Varda
1965 / 79min / DCP
Perhaps Varda’s most purely beautiful movie, calling into question the price of beauty, further exploring themes developed in her 1962 breakthrough Cléo from 5 to 7. Carpenter François (Jean-Claude Drouot) loves his wife (Claire Drouot) and he loves…
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The Olympics in Mexico
Wednesday July 24
6:15pmDirector: Alberto Isaac
1969 / 160min / Digital
The only film in this series directed by an actual ex-Olympian—Isaac represented Mexico in the 1948 and ’52 Summer Olympics—documents the Games’ touchdown in the director’s hometown of Mexico City in the turbulent year of 1968. Alongside the…
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High and Low
Wednesday July 24
6:20pmDirector: Akira Kurosawa
1963 / 143min / 35mm
Kurosawa’s formal genius and rare humanism are on full display in this white-knuckle thriller—source of an upcoming remake by Spike Lee—which transposes the materials of an Ed McBain novel to contemporary Japan, starring Toshiro Mifune as a rich…
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Getting Straight
Wednesday July 24
9:20pmDirector: Richard Rush
1970 / 124min / 35mm
Elliott Gould, fresh off the set of M*A*S*H and already something of a counterculture celebrity as TIME Magazine’s “Star for an Uptight Age,” leads a cast including Candice Bergen and a very young Harrison Ford in Rush’s flip, antic depiction of…
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Chungking Express
Wednesday July 24
9:30pmDirector: Wong Kar-wai
1994 / 102min / DCP
A hot-shot to the heart, pop masterpiece Chungking Express tells the stories of two lovelorn cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung) and the women who baffle them (Brigitte Lin and Faye Wong, who contributes a Cantopop cover of The Cranberries’…
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Do the Right Thing
Thursday July 25
4:15pmDirector: Spike Lee
1989 / 120min / 35mm
Has any movie better captured the atmosphere of those dog days when you can actually feel the suffocating weight of summertime in NYC? Production designer Wynn Thomas’s blazing red touch-ups on the shops and homes of Lexington Avenue, DP Ernest…
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Swept Away
Thursday July 25
4:30pmDirector: Lina Wertmüller
1974 / 114min / DCP
An odd-couple arthouse sensation in the United States, Wertmüller’s provocative, fable-like two-hander brings together Mariangela Melato and Giancarlo Giannini for an oft-ugly battle of the sexes (and classes) cage match with the sparkling…
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Memories of Murder
Thursday July 25
6:40pmDirector: Bong Joon Ho
2003 / 131min / DCP
The political upheavals of 1980s South Korea form the backdrop to Bong’s skewed, wryly satirical take on the police procedural, based on the true story of the country’s first serial killer, following three detectives—an overwhelmed small-town cop…
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In the Realm of the Senses
Thursday July 25
6:50pmDirector: Nagisa Ōshima
1976 / 102min / 35mm
Q&A with Tatsuya Fuji, moderated by Stephen MacFarlane, on Saturday, July 20th
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Summer with Monika
Thursday July 25
9:10pmDirector: Ingmar Bergman
1953 / 96min / 35mm
While Bergman is often associated with long, dark winters of the soul, the Swede was every bit as accomplished when dealing with sun-kissed sensuality—as amply evidenced in his ravishing Summer with Monika, in which two young lovers (Harriet Andersson…
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Thursday July 25
9:15pmDirector: Paul Schrader
1985 / 121min / DCP
Self-destruction and the (distinctly masculine, masochistic) death drive have been constants in Schrader’s work since the days of Taxi Driver, so it’s only natural he would gravitate to the story of Yukio Mishima, the renegade/ultra-traditionalist…
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A Tale of Summer
Director: Éric Rohmer
1996 / 113min / DCP
Awaiting his girlfriend Léna’s arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard (Melvil Poupard) befriends—and flirts heavily with—two other women, the companionable ethnology student Margot (Amanda Lenglet) and the sensual townie Solène…
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Un Film Comme Les Autres
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
1968 / 107min / DCP
Godard’s farewell—temporary, as it happened—to working as an individual director before submerging himself into the hivemind of the Dziga Vertov Group, the provocative, fearless, frustrating diptych work Un film comme les autres is wildly inventive…
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L'Avventura
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
1960 / 143min / 35mm
When Anna (Lea Massari) disappears while on a yachting holiday in the Aeolian Islands, her lover (Gabriele Ferzetti) and her friend (Monica Vitti) set out to solve the enigma of her disappearance, only to lose the thread of the mystery as they embark on…
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Only the River Flows
Director: Wei Shujun
2023 / 101min / DCP
Q&A with director Wei Shujun on Friday, July 26th at 7:15pm and Saturday, July 27th at 1:45pm
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Empire of Passion
Friday July 26
7:20pmDirector: Nagisa Ôshima
1978 / 105min / 35mm
After the scandal of In the Realm of the Senses, Oshima came back with an erotic vision every bit as potent, this time mixing the pleasures of the flesh with a touch of the supernatural to create a lyrical, unsettling film of passion and retribution that…
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A Clockwork Orange
Director: Stanley Kubrick
1971 / 136min / 35mm
Introduction from SCALA!!! co-director Ali Catterall on Monday, July 22nd
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Marathon
Saturday July 27
11:20amDirector: Carlos Saura
1993 / 130min / Digital
In setting out to make the official film of the XXV Olympiad in the Catalan capital, Saura took the unusual step of narrowing the focus of his film to a single event, the men’s marathon, run through the streets of Barcelona. A paean to the host city and…
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The Outsiders
Saturday July 27
2:00pmDirector: Francis Ford Coppola
1983 / 91min / 35mm
A petition from an elementary school librarian and her students in Fresno, California, to Coppola, asking him to make a film from S.E. Hinton’s 1967 coming-of-age classic The Outsiders, led to the director’s standout popular success of the ’80s, a…
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Point Break
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
1991 / 122min
Keanu Reeves stars as Johnny Utah, an FBI agent who goes undercover among the beach bums in order to investigate a hunch about surfers who are possibly moonlighting as bank robbers, in the film that cemented Reeves as a new, very California cool kind of…
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Turumba
Saturday July 27
4:15pmDirector: Kidlat Tahimik
1983 / 94min / 16mm
The manufacture of paper mache figurines, traditionally tied to a festival that lends its name to Tahimik’s slyly funny docufiction depicting the creeping westernization of the Filipino village of Laguna, becomes big business when one family, inspired…
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Cure
Saturday July 27
6:15pmDirector: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
1997 / 111min
Kurosawa’s international breakthrough rode a tide of late ’90s J-horror mania, but was immediately recognizable as the work of a formidable formalist whose thematic and philosophical concerns went deeper than jump scares. Detective Kenichi Takabe…
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The Wicker Man
Saturday July 27
8:30pmDirector: Robin Hardy
1973 / 88min / DCP
Part horror film, part murder mystery, part pagan musical, Hardy’s cult film—once nearly a lost classic of UK genre cinema—follows Edward Woodward’s upright, uptight police inspector as the persnickety Puritan sets down on the remote Hebridean…
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Pink Flamingos
Saturday July 27
9:00pmDirector: John Waters
1972 / 93min / 35mm
A midnight movie sensation and perhaps the signature film of Baltimore’s own Pope of Trash, “exercise in poor taste” Pink Flamingos features Divine as Babs, the matriarch of the criminal Johnson family, forced to guard her title as “Filthiest…
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Antichrist
Saturday July 27
10:20pmDirector: Lars Von Trier
2009 / 108min / DCP
The opening gambit in what’s been dubbed von Trier’s “Depression Trilogy” caused a furor at Cannes with its shockingly graphic violence… and also earned Best Actress honors for Charlotte Gainsbourg, frightfully committed as playing one half of a…
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Eraserhead
Saturday July 27
11:00pmDirector: David Lynch
1977 / 89min / 35mm
Q&A with cinematographer Frederick Elmes, moderated by Sam Ishii-Gonzales, on Saturday, July 20th
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Visions of Eight
Sunday July 28
11:30amDirector: Multiple Dirs
1973 / 110min / Digital
Per the title, this superlative omnibus work brings together eight segments by eight different international directors, each focusing on one aspect of the tragedy-marred 1972 Munich Summer Olympics. Ichikawa, seven years after his Tokyo Olympiad, offers…
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Sunday July 28
1:50pmDirector: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
1943 / 163min / DCP
From the Boer War to the London Blitz, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp employs an ingenious flashback structure to guide us through 40 years in the life of General Clive Candy (Roger Livesey, embodying the pompous cartoon character created by David…
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The Wild Goose Lake
Monday July 29
9:20pmDirector: Yi'nan Diao
2019 / 113min / DCP
Diao’s darkly dazzling, meticulously composed thriller is a miracle of contemporary Chinese noir, a twisty white-knuckler following a Wuhan gang leader on the lam and a girl desperately searching for freedom through a series of double-crosses,…
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Possession
Wednesday July 31
10:00pmDirector: Andrzej Żuławski
1981 / 124min
Żuławski’s one-of-a-kind genre pastiche has spy Sam Neill returning to his Berlin home from a mission abroad to discover that wife Isabelle Adjani wants suddenly to split up. Presented in 4K Restoration
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The Dreamers
Friday August 2
2:15pmDirector: Bernardo Bertolucci
2003 / 115min / 35mm
As the streets of Paris threaten to turn into a battlefield in the early months of 1968, a trio of beautiful young people—an American expat, Matthew (Michael Pitt), and a French brother-sister duo, Isabelle and Eva (Louis Garrel and Eva…
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Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
Friday August 2
2:20pmDirector: Jacques Tati
1953 / 114min / DCP
Tati’s pipe-smoking, tan trench coat-clad alter ego heads out to a seaside resort for a little rest and relaxation—but there’s never much of either on offer when the accident-prone Hulot is around. The spectacle of vacationers working overtime to…
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Typhoon Club
Friday August 2
4:40pmDirector: Shinji Sômai
1985 / 115min
Emotionally raw, enormously tender and, finally, tentatively hopeful, Sômai’s breakthrough film—winner of the Grand Prix at the first Tokyo International Film Festival—observes a group of provincial junior high students who find themselves forced…
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Medium Cool
Friday August 2
4:45pmDirector: Haskell Wexler
1968 / 111min / 35mm
The late, lamented Robert Forster has one of his greatest roles as a television news camera operator who, shooting in Chicago during the summer of the 1968 Democratic National Convention, experiences a political epiphany. Shot around the real-life DNC…
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Still Film preceded by Moon v. State
Friday August 2
7:00pmDirector: James N. Kienitz Wilkins
2024 / 88min / DCP
Introduction and post-screening Q&A with James N. Kienitz Wilkins, moderated by Jess Barbagallo, on Friday, August 2nd
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My Twentieth Century
Friday August 2
9:20pmDirector: Ildikó Enyedi
1989 / 104min
Winner of the Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Enyedi’s pithy and altogether delightful first feature is a rollicking picaresque period piece shot in luminous black and white and set in the infancy years of cinema, starring Polish actress…
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The Beach
Friday August 2
9:30pmDirector: Danny Boyle
2000 / 119min / 35mm
A sort of Lord of the Flies for the jet-setting leisure class, Boyle’s adaptation of Alex Garland’s novel is a steamy thriller set in motion when Leonardo DiCaprio’s backpacking beach bum accepts an invitation to a pristine island in the Gulf of…
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Celine and Julie Go Boating
Saturday August 3
12:00pmDirector: Jacques Rivette
1974 / 193min / DCP
The product of a close creative collaboration between Rivette and stars Juliet Berto, Bulle Ogier, and Marie-France Pisier, Céline and Julie Go Boating is a delightful nesting doll of a film, a work of stories within stories, and arguably the apex of its…
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Radiance
Saturday August 3
1:45pmDirector: Naomi Kawase
2017 / 101min / Digital
Misako (Ayame Misaki), an intensely conscientious writer struggling with the challenges presented by her job composing faithful descriptions of motion pictures for the visually impaired, finds an inspiration, an intellectual sparring partner, and the…
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Mediums preceded by Special Features
Saturday August 3
3:45pmDirector: James N. Kienitz Wilkins
2017 / 50min / DCP
Post-screening Q&A with James N. Kienitz Wilkins on Saturday, August 3rd
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35 Shots of Rum
Saturday August 3
5:30pmDirector: Claire Denis
2008 / 100min / 35mm
Introduction by India Donaldson on Saturday, August 3rd
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Indefinite Pitch followed by This Action Lies
Saturday August 3
6:00pmDirector: James N. Kienitz Wilkins
2016 / 55min / DCP
Introduction and post-screening Q&A with James N. Kienitz Wilkins, moderated by Joey Frank, on Saturday, August 3rd
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The Loneliest Planet
Saturday August 3
7:50pmDirector: Julia Loktev
2011 / 113min / 35mm
Introduction by India Donaldson on Saturday, August 3rd
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Titane
Saturday August 3
10:10pmDirector: Julia Ducournau
2021 / 108min / DCP
Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, Ducournau’s sophomore feature follows Alexia (Agathe Rouselle), a car-crazy showgirl with a titanium plate in her skull as a souvenir of a childhood auto accident, as she embarks on a serial…
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P. P. Rider
Saturday August 3
10:15pmDirector: Shinji Sômai
1983 / 118min
Adapted from a story by Leonard Schrader—yes, Paul’s brother—P.P. Rider is a cheeky, playful, and consistently surprising adventure yarn about three young friends who, having witnessed the kidnapping of their school bully, set out on a journey…
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Common Carrier
Sunday August 4
12:00pmDirector: James N. Kienitz Wilkins
2017 / 78min / DCP
Post-screening Q&A with James N. Kienitz Wilkins & Robin Schavoir on Sunday, August 4th
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The Plagiarists
Sunday August 4
2:10pmDirector: Peter Parlow
2019 / 76min / DCP
Introduction and post-screening Q+A with James N. Kienitz Wilkins & Robin Schavoir on Sunday, August 4th
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Members Only: Good One
Director: India Donaldson
2024 / 90min / DCP
A standout success at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, Donaldson’s piercing debut drama stars astonishing newcomer Lily Collias as 17-year-old Sam, forced to play mediator and peacemaker while on a three-day backpacking trip in the Catskills with her…
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La Piscine
Friday August 9
2:00pmDirector: Jacques Deray
1969 / 124min
It’s trouble in paradise when lovers Alain Delon and Romy Schneider’s poolside idyll at a St. Tropez villa is interrupted by the arrival of her ex, Maurice Ronet, and his rapidly maturing daughter, Jane Birkin. Beautiful people, ravishing landscapes,…
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Daisies
Friday August 9
4:15pmDirector: Věra Chytilová
1966 / 76min / 35mm
A drolly anarchic cine-provocation that bloomed just before the Prague Spring, Chytilová’s New Wave farce is a feminist Duck Soup buddy movie, an expression of pure anti-social revolt and gleeful gluttony, in which two gal pals, both named Marie (Ivana…
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Something in the Air
Friday August 9
8:00pmDirector: Olivier Assayas
2012 / 122min / DCP
Assayas vividly, immediately conjures the world of his youth—the heady enthusiasms for radical politics, parties, and rock ’n’ roll of his post-May ’68 teenage years—in this largely autobiographical memory piece, which follows Assayas’s…
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Duelle
Friday August 9
10:30pmDirector: Jacques Rivette
1975 / 121min / DCP
The first film in an incomplete tetralogy planned by Rivette, alternately called “Les Filles de feu” and “Scenes de la vie parallele,” the dreamy Duelle features Bulle Ogier and Juliet Berto as Viva and Leni, respectively goddesses of the sun and…
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Suspiria
Director: Dario Argento
1977 / 98min / 35mm
A fairy tale construction at once grim and florid, Argento’s best-known film finds Jessica Harper’s American ballet dancer arriving at an exclusive academy in Germany where she discovers a dark past and occult forces at work in the present. With some…
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Still Walking
Saturday August 10
12:00pmDirector: Hirokazu Kore-eda
2008 / 115min / DCP
Made in the immediate aftermath of Kore-eda’s mother’s decline and death—which the director, who nursed her through the last two years of her life, witnessed in intimate detail—Still Walking is a masterful study of mourning, its action largely…
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Decision to Leave
Saturday August 10
10:20pmDirector: Park Chan-wook
2022 / 138min / 35mm
A complex, consistently surprising work of exquisite tonal control, which gives Tang a role custom-tailored for her combination of sensual allure and entrancing charm
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Tampopo
Saturday August 10
10:40pmDirector: Juzo Itami
1985 / 114min / DCP
Japanese milk-truck drivers (Tsutomu Yamazaki and Ken Watanabe) team up with the owner of a run-down roadside food stall (Nobuko Miyamoto, in the title role) to help her kick up her noodle-making game a notch in Itami’s brash, bawdy, knee-slapping…
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Eternity and a Day
Sunday August 11
1:30pmDirector: Theo Angelopoulos
1998 / 137min / DCP
Plunged into despair and battling writer’s block following the death of his wife and recent devastating news concerning his own health, a famed Greek writer (a heartbreaking Bruno Ganz) finds new purpose in the present when he befriends a young Albanian…
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That Day, On The Beach
Director: Edward Yang
1983 / 166min / DCP
The little-screened debut feature by Yang, prophet of and proselytizer for the Taiwanese New Wave, features Sylvia Chang and Terry Hu as two female friends, an unhappily married housewife and a concert pianist, brought together after a 13-year separation:…
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Zabriskie Point
Friday August 16
2:15pmDirector: Michelangelo Antonioni
1970 / 110min / 35mm
Widely jeered on its release as Italian interloper Antonioni’s uncomprehending attempt to comment on post-Age of Aquarius American youth in revolt, the divisive Zabriskie Point—which follows a young radical (newcomer Mark Frechette) who lights off for…
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Blank Generation
Friday August 16
2:45pmDirector: Ulli Lommel
1980 / 79min / Digital
Fassbinder repertory troupe regular-cum-director Lommel crafts a star vehicle for L.E.S. “It Boy” Richard Hell (né Richard Meyers) in Blank Generation, which has Hell playing a sulky, scattered, professionally unprofessional and unmistakably Richard…
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Friday August 16
4:30pmDirector: Robert Aldrich
1962 / 134min / DCP
A poison-pen letter to Tinseltown that makes Sunset Boulevard look like a love note, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? locks viewers into the decrepit Hancock Park mansion with the Hudson sisters, former child actress Jane (Bette Davis) and her…
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Everyone Else
Friday August 16
4:45pmDirector: Maren Ade
2009 / 119min / 35mm
Before the breakthrough of Ade’s 2016 Toni Erdmann, Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear-winner Everyone Else established the director as a new force to be reckoned with in international cinema. Gitti (Birgit Minichmayr), a music publicist, and her…
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The Cramps and The Mutants: The Napa State Tapes
Friday August 16
7:15pmDirector: Joe Target Rees
1978 / 72min / DCP
Q&A with filmmaker Mike Plante on Friday, August 16th
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Let the Right One In
Friday August 16
7:20pmDirector: Tomas Alfredson
2008 / 114min / 35mm
Bullied by his classmates, friendless 12-year-old Oskar (Kåre Hedebrant) finally finds a playmate when Eli (Lina Leandersson), a girl his age, moves in next door with her father… just around the time that dead bodies start showing up all over…
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Fat Girl
Friday August 16
9:45pmDirector: Catherine Breillat
2001 / 86min / 35mm
Sibling rivalry is escalated to blood feud levels in Breillat’s brutal, boundary-busting take on the peculiarly French sexual-awakening-on-summer-holiday genre. Pudgy, sullen 12-year-old Anaïs (Anaïs Reboux) is determined to throw away her virginity…
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Saturday Afternoon Cartoons: Made in NYC
Saturday August 17
12:30pm2024 / 60min / 16mm
Featuring introduction and Q&A with Stathes.
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Hester Street
Saturday August 17
5:45pmDirector: Joan Micklin Silver
1975 / 89min
Carol Kane in person for post-screening conversation with staff writer at The New Yorker, Naomi Fry, on Saturday, August 17th
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Eyes Without a Face
Saturday August 17
6:20pmDirector: Georges Franju
1960 / 90min / 35mm
Maurice Jarre’s original score helps to sustain the hypnotic atmosphere of Franju’s shocking—and shockingly original—tale of mad science run amok, which concerns a demented doctor (Pierre Brasseur) kidnapping young women in order to harvest their…
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Sweetie
Saturday August 17
8:20pmDirector: Jane Campion
1989 / 99min / 35mm
A darkly comic study in sibling dynamics, family dysfunction, and the mundane menace of the Sydney suburbs, Sweetie stars Karen Colston as Kay, a brittle repressed, superstition-wracked twentysomething factory worker, and Geneviève Lemon as her sister,…
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The Mafu Cage
Saturday August 17
8:20pmDirector: Karen Arthur
1978 / 102min / Digital
One of the first American horror films directed by a woman, Arthur’s independently financed The Mafu Cage features a chillingly committed Kane as Cissy, a child-woman who lives with astronomer sister Lee Grant in a crumbling house in the Hollywood…
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
Sunday August 18
12:00pmDirector: Alfred Hitchcock
1956 / 120min
Often overlooked amidst Hitchcock’s many other towering works of the 1950s, his Technicolor, VistaVision auto-remake of his 1934 picture of the same title is a thriller of the first order, with James Stewart and Doris Day (in her finest film role) as an…
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Downtown 81 [35mm]
Sunday August 18
4:30pmDirector: Edo Bertoglio
2000 / 75min / 35mm
Special 35mm screening on Sunday, August 18th at 4:30pm